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Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity is fellowship programme based @lseinequalities.bsky.social. Our global community of Fellows are committed to using collective leadership to work towards social and economic justice for all.
Congratulations to Juan David Velasco Montoya on joining the global community of Senior Fellows! 🎉
Juan David is a political scientist & transitional justice advisor. His MSc Dissertation examined the emergence and impact of Ministries of Equality.
ℹ️Learn more about Juan David: buff.ly/9qFKKtb
Congratulations to Lucia Makamure for becoming an AFSEE Senior Fellow!🎉
Lucia is a fiscal justice campaigner. Her Fellowship Project examined the human cost of sovereign debt crises arguing that debt restructuring must centre lived experience and justice.
ℹ️Learn more about Lucia: buff.ly/AbH7Kmr
For #InternationalWomensDay, we have published two special pieces on the AFSEE Blog:
📚 Nasha's blog on Rohingya women and the power of solidarity: buff.ly/e30Yll5
📚 Anita's blog on feminist diplomacy and the call for the first woman UN Secretary-General: buff.ly/fpOSV2M
Congratulations to Fátima Pacas for joining the global Atlantic Fellows community!🎉
Fátima is a sociologist & human rights defender. Her Fellowship Project examined how authoritarian practices operate as disabling mechanisms of accountability.
ℹ️Learn more about Fátima: buff.ly/9yjxaio
Congratulations to Vicente Silva Didier on joining the global community of Senior Fellows! 🎉
Vicente is an advisor on international tax policy. His MSc Dissertation examined how civil society experts shape progressive tax reforms in Chile.
ℹ️Learn more about Vicente: buff.ly/Nl1NoSd
Ghana’s debt crisis highlights how fiscal policy that’s influenced by creditor priorities affects the basic rights of vulnerable citizens.
What would a new approach – centred around human dignity, justice and accountability – look like?
Lucia Makamure explores #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Congratulations to Juan Cardoza-Oquendo for becoming an AFSEE Senior Fellow! 🎉
Juan is a community organiser & campaigner. His Fellowship Project was a documentary exploring the experiences of grassroots activists who occupy local elected office in the U.S.
ℹ️Learn more about Juan: buff.ly/o2pdARO
📢 We are looking forward to the AFSEE Keynote Lecture on Wednesday 18 March!
In the event, Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak and AFSEE Fellow Lily Jamaludin will discuss our world today, the stories that bring us together & the silences that keep us apart.
Congratulations to @jena.ng for joining the global Atlantic Fellows community!🎉
Jen is a human rights lawyer & activist. Her Fellowship Project was a podcast series that critically reflected on whether law serves and protects everyone equally.
ℹ️Learn more about Jen: buff.ly/nDObQLs
Congratulations to Solomon Atsuvia on joining the global community of Senior Fellows! 🎉
Solomon is a socio-legal scholar & human rights advocate. His Fellowship Project was a toolkit on eradicating conversion practices in Ghana.
ℹ️Learn more about Solomon: buff.ly/iAqENuG
How can we keep education going in Gaza?
In the second episode of our podcast collaboration with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social, AFSEE Fellow Manar Alzraiy and colleagues discuss what is needed to rebuild education in Gaza both physically and intellectually.
🎧 Listen to the episode: buff.ly/tMKuMe8
Congratulations to Vardini M Sukumar for becoming an AFSEE Senior Fellow! 🎉
Vardini is an independent researcher. Her MSc Dissertation examined how performing nomadic tribes were misrepresented or excluded from the colonial census records.
ℹ️ Learn more about Vardini: buff.ly/tq7UeYF
Congratulations to JiHye Jeong all of our 2024-25 Fellows for joining the global Atlantic Fellows community!🎉
JiHye is a journalist & gender equality specialist. Her Fellowship Project was a documentary examining how women in South Korea resist patriarchy.
ℹ️ Learn more about JiHye: bit.ly/4rO5df9
Congratulations to Badrul Hisham Ismail on joining the global community of Senior Fellows!🎉
Badrul is an independent researcher & arts practitioner. His MSc Dissertation examined how an indigenous community navigates urban life in Kuala Lumpur.
ℹ️Learn more about Badrul: bit.ly/3Oz9ft8
Congratulations to Judit Ignácz for becoming an AFSEE Senior Fellow!
Judit is a human rights advocate & trainer. Her Fellowship Project offered recommendations for designing equitable professional development programmes.
ℹ️: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/fellows/2024...
Last week, we hosted a book launch event 'Eco-Social Contracts for Just and Sustainable Futures' with @gsos-lse.bsky.social at LSE.
The panel called for an eco-social contract that fundamentally redefines the relationship between people, planet & power.
🎧Listen to the recording: buff.ly/y8RJQgA
Congratulations to Giannis Efthymiou, who has been selected for the inaugural LSE-Tsinghua University Sustainability Research Fund!
His project 'Building Sustainable Societies Through Fostering Engagement of Higher Education Students' is one of twelve projects selected for funding.
Tune in to the first episode of our new season of Instant Coffee podcast!
Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani (@afsee-lse.bsky.social) speaks with Azadeh Sobout and Rindala about how transnational solidarity networks can strengthen social change efforts.
🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...
Congratulations to Dany Díaz Mejía and all our 2024-25 Fellows for joining the global Atlantic Fellows community!🎉
Dany is a storyteller & democracy advocate, whose Fellowship Project was an e-zine that challenged dominant narratives of development.
ℹ️Learn more about Dany: buff.ly/sXfmyFe
From confronting authoritarianism in Central America to challenging patriarchal norms in South Korea, Fellows from our 2024–25 Cohort graduate to Senior Fellowship with renewed clarity, conviction, and community!🎉
ℹ️Learn more about the Fellows and their work: buff.ly/tiNa9HB
I met with Marina and we had a great conversation about holding autocrats to account, building networks of solidarity and coslitions for peace and democracy. Check
It out 👇🏽
podfollow.com/people-vs-in...
What does it take to effect meaningful change in our communities?
Through our collaboration with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social's Instant Coffee podcast, five AFSEE Fellows co-curated episodes highlighting the people & ideas shaping movements & change in the Middle East.
ℹ️Learn more: buff.ly/75asaP5
👥Join in on the discussion by attending the 'Uniting for Change: Strengthening Collaboration Between Disability Justice and Inequality Activists' online webinar co-hosted by us & @addinternational.bsky.social on 4 March!
🎟️Register to attend: buff.ly/JLJNP8m
How can we strengthen collaboration between disability & inequality movements?
📚 Read AFSEE Fellow Lyla Adwan-Kamara's blog 'Built on Trust, Designed for Inclusion: Rethinking Collaboration Between Disability and Inequality Movements': buff.ly/o0MCR91 and...
The social contract is broken—and for much of humanity & nature, it never really worked. Join us this Wednesday, 18 February at LSE (6.30 - 8.00 pm) in person or online for a book launch on eco-social contracts with Mary Robinson, Najma Mohamed and Manisha Desai.
Following from the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, AFSEE Fellow Mariama Jobarteh highlights how progress in The Gambia requires more than legal defence or cultural resistance alone; it demands a moral reconciliation of law, religion, and cultural values.
📚Read the blog: buff.ly/IXUm7OF
What is the link between climate change and religion?
Kristian Noll (@afsee-lse.bsky.social) and Dr Hanane Benadi argue that religion is critical to many people’s lived experience of the climate crisis.
Read more in the latest issue of #LSEResearchForTheWorld ⬇️
How can we decolonise development funding in Africa?🌍
The 'Reclaiming Africa’s Development Narrative' brings together African perspectives on development funding. This incredible book was edited by AFSEE Fellows Jite Phido & Caroline Kioko.
📙Available open-access here: buff.ly/Ua85WEQ
📢Join us for our event 'Eco-social contracts for sustainable and just futures' co-hosted with @gsos-lse.bsky.social on 18 February!
For anyone seeking hope and direction during a time of global uncertainty, this event will explore how inclusive, regenerative, and just futures can be co-created.🌱
"Oxfam’s Global Inequality Report does not just describe a crisis. It issues a challenge. #Kenya must decide whether inequality is something it regrets or something it chooses," comments AFSEE Fellow Hadija Bonaya in her opinion piece for @citizentvkenya.bsky.social.
